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Fire and forethought: Fire effects syntheses are a powerful tool for planning and management across resource fields

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) team synthesizes information about wildland fires, their history in U.S. ecosystems, and their effects
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Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Woody biomass could be used to generate energy in the western U.S. if the utilization process is both economically feasible and ecologically sustainable. The
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Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Reducing wildfire risk to lives and property is a critical issue for policy makers, land managers, and citizens who reside in high-risk fire areas
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Protecting the source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: High-intensity wildfires are one of the leading causes of severe soil erosion in western U.S. watersheds. This erosion can lead to disruptive deposits of
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Wildland fire: Nature’s fuel treatment

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Every year wildland fires affect much more acreage in the United States compared to controlled burns. Like controlled burns, wildland fire can help promote
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Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The 2012 High Park Fire that occurred near Fort Collins, CO was particularly severe with nearly half of the total burn area being classified
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Painting a picture across the landscape with ModelMap

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed
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Where’s the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Matt Reeves, a research economist with the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, along with collaborators, have been trying to understand the impacts of climate
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Streamwater nitrogen and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: A recently published study by a team of Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) scientists describes a 10-year investigation of streamwater nitrogen (N) and forest
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Warming and warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: To help evaluate ecosystem vulnerability across the Rocky Mountain Region, a team of scientists with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station compiled
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Test Blog Grid

Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies

Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk

Protecting the source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection

Wildland fire: Nature’s fuel treatment

Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later

Where’s the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands

Streamwater nitrogen and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO

Warming and warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region

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